Canaanite

From Canaan +‎ -ite.

Canaanite

A subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites and Phoenicians.
- 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 393:
  An affricated realization of *-z, as well as of voiceless *-s and emphatic *-ṣ-, is in any case reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, Northwest Semitic, and Canaanite, to which Phoenician belongs.

a subfamily of the Semitic languages spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites and Phoenicians

Canaanite (plural Canaanites)

A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 54:
  Among the ancient Canaanites it was considered a divine honor to perform the sexual act.
- 2022 November 9, Ian Sample, “Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb”, in The Guardian‎:
  It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.
(by extension) A zealot or fanatic.
A member of the Canaanism movement.

member of ancient Semitic people

Arabic: كَنْعَانِيّ (kanʕāniyy)
Armenian: քանանացի (kʻananacʻi)
Dutch: Kanaäniet (nl) m
French: Cananéen (fr) m, Cananéenne f, Chananéen m, Chananéenne f
German: Kanaanäer (de) m, Kanaanäerin f, Kananäer m, Kananäerin f, Kanaanit m, Kanaanitin f, Kanaaniter m, Kanaaniterin f, Kananiter m, Kananiterin f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: Χαναναῖος m (Khananaîos)
Hebrew: כנעני (k'na'aní)
Hungarian: kánaánita (hu)
Italian: cananeo (it)
Latin: Chananaeus m, Chananaea f
Maore Comorian: mtru wa Kanani class 1/2
Old Armenian: քանանացի (kʻananacʻi)
Persian: کنعانی (fa) (kan'âni)
Portuguese: cananeu (pt) m, cananeia (pt) f, canaanita (pt) m or f
Russian: хананей m (xananej)
Spanish: cananeo (es) m
Tumbuka: muKanani class 1

Canaanite (comparative more Canaanite, superlative most Canaanite)

Of or pertaining to the people or language of Canaan.
- 2022 November 9, Ian Sample, “Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb”, in The Guardian‎:
  Unearthed in Lachish, a Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah, the comb suggests that humans have endured lice for thousands of years and that even the wealthiest were not spared the grim infestations.
Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers; Canaanitic.
(by extension) zealous or fanatical.

of or pertaining to this sect or its followers

Dutch: Kanaänitisch
French: cananéen (fr), chananéen (fr)
German: kanaanäisch (de), kananäisch, kanaanitisch, kananitisch
Greek: χαναανιτικός (el) (chanaanitikós), χαναανικός (el) (chanaanikós)
Ancient Greek: Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos)
Hebrew: כנעני (k'na'aní)
Hungarian: kánaánita (hu)
Italian: cananeo (it)
Latin: Chananaeus, Chanāneus
Malayalam: ക്നാനായ (ml) (knānāya)
Portuguese: cananeu (pt), canaanita (pt)
Spanish: cananeo (es), canaanita

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